2 Samuel 11:15
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
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Retire
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Jeremiah 4:6
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
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עוּז
ʻûwz · ooz
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to be strong; causatively, to strengthen, i.e. (figuratively) to save (by flight)
Strong's KJV usage: gather (self, self to flee), retire.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:6Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:6
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shûwb · shoob
1 times translated as this KJV form1,105 total Strong's occurrences
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Strong's KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
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Strong's first: 2 Samuel 11:15Strong's last: 2 Samuel 11:15
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And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
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retire
RETI'RE, verb intransitive
1. To withdraw; to retreat; to go from company or from a public place into privacy; as, to retire from the world; to retire from notice.
2. To retreat from action or danger; as, to retire from battle.
3. To withdraw from a public station. General Washington, in 1796, retired to private life.
4. To break up, as a company or assembly. The company retired at eleven o'clock.
5. To depart or withdraw for safety or for pleasure. Men retire from the town in summer for health and pleasure. But in South Carolina, the planters retire from their estates to Charleston, or to an isle near the town.
6. To recede; to fall back. The shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
RETI'RE, verb transitive To withdraw; to take away.
He retired himself, his wife and children into a forest.
As when the sun is present all the year, and never doth retire his golden ray.
[This transitive use of retire is now obsolete.]
RETI'RE, noun
1. Retreat; recession; a withdrawing. obsolete
2. Retirement; place of privacy. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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